Obama Orders Billion Dollars In Strip-Search Scanners - TSA Agents Check Passengers' Genitals - Why?

Here's The Right Side Of It ^ | November 13, 2010 | John L. Work

[JLWORK]

WorldNetDaily’s Bob Unruh reports today that Barack Obama gave instructions to the Homeland Security Department to spend one billion dollars on purchasing airport electronic body scanning equipment – the same devices that conduct de-facto strip searches for viewing by TSA personnel. The alternative to the strip search is a pat down search that includes touching of the passengers’ genitalia. So, what’s really going on, folks? Here’s Unruh’s story in its entirety:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=227489

Some brief excerpts I’ve culled are here:

“…”Legislation has been proposed to mandate full-body scanners and make them the primary screening method in all U.S. airports by 2013, but Congress has yet to act on it,” John Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute, wrote in a new commentary…”

“…in the wake of the bumbling underwear bomber’s botched Christmas Day attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound plane, Obama directed the Homeland Security Department ‘to acquire $1 billion in advanced-technology equipment, including body scanners, for screening passengers,’” he continued…”

“…”We’ve gotten tons of e-mails, mainly from females about the invasions of the body scanners,” Whitehead said. “In one case, a mother [told how] her 12-year-old daughter was pulled out of the security line, and [TSA] did touch her breast and vaginal areas.

“This is an unreasonable search and seizure,” he said…”

Perhaps. The Courts are the final arbiter of what constitutes an unreasonable search. My question is, what lies beneath the obvious here?

As airlines passengers we have two choices, both of them very unpleasant and demeaning – humiliating might be the appropriate word: Virtual nudity or having TSA agents’ hands on our private parts – perhaps down inside our pants, as one pilot in Unruh’s story described. Here’s what I believe could be in play:

1) Will these policies discourage people from flying? I believe they will. I, for one, refuse to participate in the madness and will not fly anywhere.

2) Would a significant loss of profits from decreased air traffic put the airlines into deeper financial trouble? I think so.

3) If the airlines industry were to financially collapse, would Obama consider seizing it and nationalizing it? We already have the deceased General Motors and Chrysler Corporations as precedents.

4) Could this airport security gambit be one part of the over-all scheme that Obama is working to induce a total collapse of the economy? If you listen to Rush Limbaugh’s theories, you can begin to believe that all of this current economic chaos is deliberate and part of the larger plan – to create a catastrophic failure of our financial system and plunge us into complete disorder.

So, yes – I can believe that Obama wants to bust the airlines industry, too.

[freedumb2003]

>>May I suggest you check with your doctor and find out what level of X-Ray exposure is safe for you.<<

Frankly, I was thinking the same thing. Right now, I get it only on one side (and that is of concern to me).

I am planning on opting out, probably starting this week. But it is going to cost me a 1/2 hour at least each way. I already get up at 3:30 (look at the time of this post) to get there. Now it will be 3:00 >-(

[freedumb2003]

Yikes!

Can I buy a paragraph marker, Vanna?

[Verginius Rufus]

I agree. Unfortunately our rulers don't (as long as it just hoi polloi who are at risk). Better that tens of millions of Americans be inconvenienced or endangered than that the king of Saudi Arabia think poorly of Obama.

[thouworm]

lol ping to post 21

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

If someone is from a high risk nation, I’m all for it. Otherwise, they can go grope themselves.